Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Anonym.OS Live CD Encrypts Your Internet Traffic!

Anonym.OS is a Linux Live CD Operating system based on OpenBSD with strong encryption and anonymization tools. The purpose of this OS is to provide a secure anonymous web browsing access to everyday users. Anonym.OS makes extensive use of Tor, the onion routing network that relies on an array of servers passing encrypted traffic to permit untraceable surfing. - Life Dork

OpenBSD is being utilised to offer various network services and is renowned in many circles as the most security-conscious operating system available. OpenBSD is a FREE/secure operating system that is based on Berkeley's implementation of Unix but it is not just about security. OpenBSD is about getting work done, not pretty colors on the installer...a sane choice if you need stability and quality in general.

Don't know much about Tor other than it is distributed as Free Software under the 3-clause BSD license. For pre-configured, pre-tested Tor environments, you can try out Anonym.OS. It is really interesting, because it really has all the good things there by default, including Tor and Wi-Fi support.

Network consulting and maintenance has many tools for taking a quick peek at network activity , especially with OpenBSD servers. I have yet to find a tool better than bwm-ng. I have been running a DHCP server on my home network for eons now, and today I decided I'd move it on to my OpenBSD firewall cluster just for fun. The network card I've chosen is a 3Com PCMCIA card was supported according to the OpenBSD web site. I use Intel Celeron 500MHz based server with two network cards (vr0 and vr1).

As you probably know, the development team of OpenBSD is also in charge of the development of OpenSSH. The default install of OpenBSD is well known to have one of the most secure default installations available. Although I use quite a few other open source software tools, OpenBSD has become my Swiss Army Knife.

1 comments:

Chris Wellons said...

Anonym.OS is a Linux Live CD Operating system

What does this have to do with the Linux kernel? They are using the OpenBSD kernel along with the BSD userspace tools.

[...] an array of servers passing encrypted traffic to permit untraceable surfing.

Well, not quite "untraceable", just as any encryption scheme short of a one-time-pad is not "unbreakable". Tor can actually be dangerous if you are expecting anonimity or privacy but are using it incorrectly, like not using end-to-end encryption on top of Tor when sending or recieving senstive information. Exit nodes have been caught sniffing traffic and performing man-in-the-middle attacks (check your fingerprints!).

Anyway, thanks for the info on Anonym.OS.